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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.

Toni Morrison

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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Art Beautiful Politics Time
You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Love Self Respect Women Empowerment
Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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Choose Freedom Responsiblity Want
To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Choose Freedom Love Permission Place
You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Fly Freedom Give Up Let Go Shit Weigh
Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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Disappear Happen Money People Profit Psychology Racism
Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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Man People Safe Stupidity Violence Weakness Wicked
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Art Beautiful Circumstance Invitation Tragic
I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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Children Need Parents Raise Thinking Village
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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Book Reading Want
A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Friendship Giving Pieces
But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Die Dreamer Dreams Finding Truth World
You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Freedom Inspirational Obligation Save
Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Beg Deep Inspirational Love Self Respect
I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Fall In Love Love One Liner Rose
When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Broken Heart Pain Sad Suffering

There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.

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